Ukraine on Thursday reported the heaviest rebel shelling attack in the separatist east for a year in what the president said could be a prelude to a full-scale Russian invasion.Military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said insurgent strikes had doubled from the previous day as tensions between Kiev and Moscow soar over Kremlin charges that Ukraine plotted to make armed incursions into Russian-annexed Crimea this month.
Agence France-Presse: Ukraine reports heaviest rebel shelling attack for a year
A Ukrainian serviceman walks among the ruins of building destroyed by pro-Russian separatists shelling in the small town of Shyrokyne, in Donetsk region, on Aug. 14, 2016.